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❝you can drive all night lookin' for the answers in the pourin' rain you wanna find peace of mind lookin' for the answer❞
-cigarette daydreams, cage the elephant
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chapter two, THE ISLAND'S SECRETS
"So that's everything from your mom's office?" John B asked, looking down at the pile of books.
"you sound disappointed" AJ let out, turning her head to see his expression. Her face twisted into amusement when he blew a puff of air out.
"Disappointed? It'll take forever to look through all of this"
"define forever, because this shouldn't take longer than a night"
"A night for you or a night for all of us?" JJ raised his brow at the blonde girl and she shook her head before turning from the boy and ignoring his question. She tried to sort through the papers in front of her but JJ clearing his throat made her look back up. "so let's get this straight" JJ took a breath before continuing.
"Big John leaves Redfield in a compass as a sign for you" He pauses and points to John B. "that leads us to the graveyard where we find that tape and the map. The tape says to call Brianne and when we tried there was nothing. We use the map to find the royal merchant. That's as far as Big John's contributions go. But, Brianne has all of this, a matching map to Big John's, a tape for AJ that says to go to John Routledge with everything." JJ sounded out, making the obvious known.
"They didn't know the other had died" AJ let out, looking down. She knew from what the pogues had told her that John B's girlfriend's dad killed his dad and that they were partners. Ward Cameron was also the man that stole the gold from them and framed John B for a murder his son committed. Big John was confirmed dead nine months after his disappearance.
"Brianne only died a few months ago, Big John was missing for nine months at that point. Yeah? She died during the hurricane, right?" Kiara looked over to AJ and the blonde girl nodded.
"so, was she coming to OBX to see Big John?" Pope let out but it wasn't posed as a question to any of the teenagers.
AJ let out a sigh and tipped her head back. "Okay, we should take a step back. We just keep circling." The others agreed and the five teenagers made their way out to John B's dock.
"so, what's your whole story?" Kiara passed the girl a beer and AJ accepted it, cracking it open without a second thought and taking a few big gulps from it.
"what do you want to know?"
"life story"
AJ laughed before thinking of what to say. "grew up in St Port Lucie, mom was a bit work-obsessed but she took care of things, ended up in juvie once or twice, pretty shit kid, good grades though. I don't know, just did my own thing"
